Florida turnpike and Sunpass - LAC

[Livolsi, Stephane]

Just out of curiosity, for those of us living in less 'civilized' parts
of the world...

What happens if you don't stop to pay the tolls?  Do they have a fleet
of high powered cop cars ready to go after toll runners?
Helicopters?M-16's? Rocket launchers?  


Stephane (in Northern BC without any steenking toll booths (yet!))

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan DiBiase [mailto:d_dibiase at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: February 11, 2004 7:53 AM
> To: Mike Arman; quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Florida turnpike and Sunpass - LAC
> 
> 
> EZ-Pass in the Northeast. I figure it saves me about 15 
> minutes driving from my home in Central NJ to Gaithersburg, 
> MD, on I-95, which I do at least once a month. On our summer 
> vacations to Cape Cod, MA, it saves us about 30 minutes - 
> mainly on the Garden State Parkway. Given that I don't really 
> drive over 75 mph, I don't have any personal concerns over 
> 'Big Brother', although I WOULD if it came to pass that they 
> wanted to use this system for speed monitoring. Of course, I 
> believe that most states have laws that state that you must 
> be 'observed' to be speeding, which would eliminate usage of 
> EZ-Pass timing, I would think, without some reformatting of 
> the laws which would raise a hue and cry.
> 
> As far as 'spray' stuff or license plate covers to ward off 
> photo radar, seems to me a major car mag in the US (Car and 
> Driver?) tested some of these a while back and found that 
> they were in the same category as the 'Ding King' and those 
> magnets you can put around your fuel line to increase gas 
> mileage - basically useless.
> 
> Audi content - when I bought my A4, I could not get myself to 
> attach the transponder to the windshield on my new car, so I 
> put it on top of the dashboard when I go through the tolls. 
> 
> Dan D
> '04 A4 1.8T q MT-6
> Central NJ USA
> --- Mike Arman <armanmik at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Not much Audi content here, although if I get one of these 
> things it 
> > is
> > going into my Audi.
> > 
> > Florida DOT is selling a device called "Sunpass"
> 
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